True...army learned a lesson from the Marines....it was on the M1...only
the M1....
Jon
At 10:33 AM 8/24/01 -0700, Tony Castagno wrote:
>Actually... the M240 Coaxial machine gun has always been in the M1 tank....
>
>
>Gunner Coax Troops....
>Tony
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Webster [mailto:jimweb@simonides.org]
>Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 12:50 PM
>To: mil-veh@mil-veh.org
>Subject: Re: [MV] Gimpy in disguise?
>
>
>>Hi All,
>>I have heard that the M240 machine gun is a gimpy in disguise - is this
>true?
>>OMVC:
>
>
>True! Commonly called the FN MAG 58, this epitome of the GPMG genre wass
>adopted by us Brits in 1957 and it lost in a shoot out competition for
>the US Army with the M60 in 1974 despite the fact that only the MAG 58
>met the specified minimum. In fact, it even exceeded the "dreamsheet"
>(minimum desired). The MAG 58 coaxial machine gun was type classified in
>1976 as the M240 coaxial vehicular machine gun. But was never really
>accepted for service until now [NIH syndrome].
>
>
>The US Army have replaced almost all of their M60s with a ground model
>of the FN M240 machine gun (called the M240G in the Marine Corps, the
>M240B in the US Army]
>
>
>
>--
>TTFN
>Jim
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